📋 Tender Overview
The statement from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security highlights that last week the Legislative Power approved a law whose project was sent as a serious and urgent matter by the Executive Power which included COVID-19 as an occupational disease during the health emergency. which includes health personnel who work directly or indirectly with patients infected with the virus and who can reliably demonstrate the causal link to access such coverage.In this sense it indicates that a registry was created within the scope of the Ministry of Public Health to define which workers are included within this occupational disease insurance.Those medical professionals who carry out their work independently were excluded from this measure so on Thursday the 2nd after several days of negotiations and at the request of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security an agreement was reached for coverage to be provided by the Retirement and Pension Fund for University Professionals financed with the assistance of the Executive Power.In this way the coverage of the insurance by COVID-19 is extended to all medical personnel who work directly or indirectly with patients infected with the virus including those who work as sole staff in the first line of care providing services in mobile emergencies.
